two thousand and fourteen revolution he gained ukrainian citizenship although it meant losing his georgian passport crane's president petro poroshenko called to the governor of the deaths of profits but he resigned in november two thousand and sixteen using kardashian go off corruption a few days later us across really announced plans to create a new political force in ukraine but that didn't happen the government revoked his ukrainian citizenship in july last year he stayed close so close really was first sent to poland then to the netherlands where he now lives on the temporary asylum status meanwhile a court in georgia found him guilty of abuse of power in connection with a two thousand and six murder case. he was sentenced to three years in prison absentee here. in ukraine the prosecutor accused saakashvili of having connections with a suspected criminal gang led by ukraine's former president viktor yanukovych. so where does all of this leave the man who was once hailed as a champion of democracy. i'm sami's a down in the dutch capital i've come to amsterdam to discuss with mr saakashv

its asked questions of georgians presence and draw in the west bank and provoked protests across the country as palestinians accuse the jordanian army of failing to protect their people. the young king was faced by mass social unrest and forced to confront the most complex problem the middle east had ever faced and one which remains today palestinian refugees. but palestinian anger was not only directed at jordan britain was also their targets and sir john bagot club and particularly. he commanded the jordanian army and the palestinians accused glop pascha of complicity in the cookie attack and their failure to defend the people of the village a sort of fear of a tool for. to be. sure that more fertile mr mr or mr or them to live in an auto or game of them said what i was like or why the above us wrong about anika and i thought i was here to look at the salon with you. more so much at that for a bit in the early or had them in heaven to be in madrid earth just with the feel she has you alone of your. work to work up a little further or got a couple of fissures in other words when it

second israel and the palestinians for years after the founding of israel and georgians annexation of the west bank and its palestinian population sustain had to deal with this enormous issue. thirty. had overthrown the egyptian king putting the future of monarchies in the arab world into question and influencing sustains future relationship with. the same surrounded himself with a small circle his mother queen zain his uncle shad if nasr had been jimmy and from hashemite iraq. his cousin and lifelong friend they had it been shock and a core group of men who'd been loyal to king abdullah mainly from inside the army. from a head in some of the americas i am at c.s.e. and i live in. the filth the official who the sun the other if i were to have hash and lady in a row i'll have her come by and i have a unit in water a year after his stain became king in october one thousand nine hundred fifty three the vulnerability of the west bank became crystal clear. israeli troops led by ariel sharon overran the village of could be. it was a glimpse of the future. israel claimed there were palestini

could be about to put a visa free entry for georgian citizens in jeopardy germany considers scrapping the eastern european countries open access to the tourist twenty seventeen ga ukrainian nationals were given ninety days free travel without a visa in the european union but germany and france people looking to emigrate according to germany's federal migration office three and a half thousand georgians applied for asylum over the last year is asking georgia to fix the problem or face the visa free entry of being. with me now is international relations professor. at university in germany welcome to the program how do you just about germany trying to get its house in order or is there a wider issue here about not having any appetite for even more immigrants. i think it's a problem it's a problem for european members. responses from the swedish government. is a shift in the migration. movements. they are not coming anymore from india from the arab countries coming from africa africa and of calls from central and east european countries especially from. on armenia and. this is not accepta

when they did it with my some of my people but i'm something else they point to several groups of georgian back on their head and with special flight. separately it's a special flight this and people away and i'm somebody else when i was in prison in k.g.b. prison here fifty thousand people took to the streets and went to a. my prison was that was quite a message for the government that's why i think it's also interesting judge it really showed that i'm not alone and people are standing but that's what let's let's let's talk about georgia john you're the first in the sense here convicted you of abuse of power gave you a three year jail term. they say that in two thousand and eight you misused your presidential pardon for police officers convicted of the murder of a banker sandra give clearly and the pardons were part of a deal to cover up evidence surrounding the killing yes well you say that's a lie no nobody has ever tried to use their presence for a party you remember bill clinton. you know pardoning it's not just about partly it's about whether you covered up evidence surrounding him t

thousand and no that's what not what they said they said that russian troops were the first to enter georgian territory but the peak action was started by our response and you know i would see any other president in the world not responding to for an army entering the territory and they said the university gave decided that both sides bore responsibility for the conflict that they did look that and did say look which flatly contradicts your version you know the thing is that small country georgia was invaded by a hundred times bigger country with russia at every time they wanted to get a war and then i said there is a very sad trend to blame of the weak team because then international community had to do something about it but despite the fact that to ukraine that happened after that we have so many of much evidence gathered up that it's all painfully obvious what was the international community did to help you and now you're looking here you are in ukraine for help from the international community of course i always said i know it's a little fight to the end fight for what stay out of jail n

half of the volunteers are typically internationals, half would be local armenians and local georgians finish. in the caucasus, there is a massive range of ecosystems, up north you have these massive alpine mountains, 5000 metres, but down to the middle and the south, is pretty much everything else you can imagine. you can walk for days and not see people, not see buildings, be completely alone. the last time the caucasus was mapped was in the 19705 by the soviets. and so i had a chance to really contribute to the design of the trail by finding different potential routes to connect the known sections of trail with the unknown sections of trail. i was hiking by myself for eight weeks and there are no hostels along the way, there are no places you meet other travellers. so that sometimes makes it really difficult to just carry on. and at that point, when i was struggling the most, shepherds would be living up in the mountains, they don't have very much but they would see me walking in the mountains by myself and, you know, from a distance, a kilometre or two kilometres away, they would s

the vanderbilt just to put georgian perspective, george was the youngest son of henry vanderbilt.modore was the founder of the mound or build family fortune. william henry was the son to whom he left the vast majority of his wealth. william henry in turn more than doubled that money in a short amount of time and george was william henry's youngest son. george didn't need to work, and actually has other-- his older brothers went into the business. even some of his brothers in law went into the business which was a shipping and. georgia didn't have much of an interest in that. use well read and enjoyed the arts, enjoyed music, enjoyed theater and enjoyed travel, so the vanderbilts were a very very large force on the new york social scene at this point in time, so as i mentioned george didn't need to work and george like to travel. key was close with his mother and in 1888 he came down to asheville. now, asheville this is not unusual, asheville in this area had developed a reputation and became almost like a little cottage industry for a various medical professionals. the mountaineer

father of, we learned how to educate children from k-12 and now we have tens of thousands of young georgianse been able to go to college because of hope scholarships, and zell miller was responsible for creating them. when i ran for president, both zell and shirley were part of my campaign. zell went to texas with lieutenant governor harvey to campaign all over texas for me. i want to thank you shirley for that wonderful contribution you did for my campaign. we had a lot in common still, zell and i. we started out my political career together. well.nd up together, as for the last few months, whenever we could, we always found a way to sit together. i agree with what has been said already. one of the most wonderful e ever service we hav georgia and a good friend of mine and i am deeply indebted. god bless you and god bless zell miller's history and i'm sure his history will continue in georgia. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> shirley, members of the family, member of zell's larger political family and to all the former governors and first ladies and senators, there is probably no one who could s

commitment not to attack jordan including the west bank the part of palestine that had been under georgian administration since the first arab israeli war in one nine hundred fourteen. and it was an unusual thing for an are appearing to do and i'd always assumed the that the initiative initiative came from the israeli side but the king himself told me that it was he who took the initiative to contact the israelis and i supreme why did you do that in his answer went roughly as follows. the jews were in. we didn't form that here history had placed them in me. in unless we found. a peaceful way alt there would be more war more conflict more violence more blood chip a lot of mud and b. day to read and to can say that took him asylum an asylum or all a philistine on which our doom whenever man has to me you're high well i'm not going to market for the edges in milan what i have at all that it's not even one of what i've done was. even a dish i could get one of them had our suburban hockey glee alerted that i bought it it government in march i can get or don't manage it and i would have him are

spite and pray, to the west bank to the relatives, onward to study but no says israel and egypt and georgian print i want to go anywhere. no. why not? tell me. what have i done to deserve this? dusty shoes, callused souls, trudging. darkness hides the horizon pass the sea. vessels are poised to shoot. it's late, i'm alone. the breeze is intoxicating, delicious, i calms my nerves and cools the fire in my mind. quite at last, don't stop this is peace, let it last at least for the second. dusty shoes, callused souls trudging. war, let it come. i know it will anyway. nothing can be worse than life is now. kill us faster kill us slow. where's the hope inside. how deep, how long how long how long will this go on. dusty shoes, callused souls, trudging. my body thanks of a good joke. see there is something still inside free, unconstrained for this moment. such shame from a respected leader. the purged of days to mount. friends were you able to save any of this month? could you lend me a bit? i'm so, so sorry to ask. such shame. can they approach the cage that chills me to shake my fist and scream an

commitments not to attack jordan including the west bank the part of palestine that had been under georgian administration since the first arab israeli war in one nine hundred fourteen. and it was an unusual thing for an are appearing to do and i'd always assumed the that the initiative initiative came from the israeli side but the king himself told me that it was he who took the initiative to contact the israelis and i supreme why did you do that in his answer went roughly as follows. the jews were in. we didn't form that here history had placed them in me. in unless we found. a peaceful way alt there would be more war more conflict more of that i'd use in milan what the let it's not even one who owed them what it is so that even a dish i could get one of them had our seven hockey glee alerted the. government in the truck of good order men as it and that would have hit him out of cup with that a well i'm sorry well man i assess each day edition on a b m can i mean look at them but that's lighten. up. but hossain had in track and with new move among the palestinians on the first of january

vitali: i studied two successful thegs in the way that -- russian -- the georgian president, but it is -- in a country as small as georgia, it's easy to implement those changes. the militaryck out officers and still survive. stuff like that in russia, you would not succeed. make no mistake. thesecondly, i believe whosroots campaign, someone has been for 25 years saying the same things on the senate floor can at nightsudden and motivate so many young people from the bottom, i believe it is also a prime example. again, that is from the united states and not from russia. we have three minutes left. a few hands up. ask the questions really quickly. right there, the gentleman in blue and black. this has to be quick. >> my name is dmitry. my question is primarily for mr. volkov. you do to increase the chances putin leaves power and is there a way that you or mr. alny see that happen? can he leave with criminal charges? what can you do to make sure he leaves in 2024? matthew: the gentleman and black. >> is it possible the russian government would adopt measures used by the current chinese gov

lindsey graham, he started a political rally in a battle ground state by saying today we are all georgians. you were furious. not that americans are dumb, but in the middle of a presidential campaign, they're not thinking of who he is and they're not thinking about the country of georgia. i wonder what you think about the fact that that was the man that the republican party nominated in 2008, and in 2016 the gop platform was changed to articulate precisely, in full view, in public, vladimir putin's desired policy vis-a-vis ukraine. >> one of the things that's fundamentally changed, nicolle, it used to be not so long ago that the american people would look at the american system of government and view it as superior to the russian system. they would have faith and trust and belief in the virtues and ideals of the american republic. but that's all been undermined both domestically and globally. if you're looking at the united states at the dysfunction of this administration from abroad, how can you possibly make the argument that this is a superior political system? and this is at the core o

inquiry so for more on this let's go to john hendren who is in washington what do we know about how georgian aid is of help to miller in his investigation. well merriam nader's seems to be the witness who keeps on giving similar we knew long ago that he had ties to the united arab emirates that he had acted as an agent for the crown prince of abu dhabi and we knew that he had arranged a meeting between a trump liaison and a russian businessman in the seychelles but what we're learning now according to this new york times article in and is that he also had deep ties to russia that he has had them since at least two thousand and twelve when he negotiated an ill fated arms agreement between iran and russia that he is familiar with all the guards there and what that means is that miller can ask not only about the u.a.e. connection whether money was funneled from the united arab emirates into the trump campaign or its allies we can also ask about russian collusion whether russia helped trump in that campaign so that intertwines two parts of two major strands of this investigation and of course na

development minister says the accident was caused by a pressure bombed them in delhi mine is operated by a georgian company ten workers have died at the mine in different accidents since two thousand and eleven. ministers from egypt sudan in ethiopia resuming talks in addis ababa as down project on the nile river the grand renee zones down was originally slated for completion this year but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the two years suspension of the talks five billion dollars dam will be the largest in africa and ethiopia wants to produce electricity for seventy percent of its population but egypt is worried because it depends on the nile for water. much more from london in about thirty minutes time now back to folly marion thank you very much for that if you're watching us on facebook live coming up next the story from our colleagues at a.j. price about the school forced to apologize over its use of black face and still ahead on the news great thousands of teachers in the u.s. state of oklahoma put down their books and take to the streets to demand better wages but while th

the vanderbilts were just to put georgian perspective. george was theyoungest son of william henry vanderbilt , the son of aurelius, a.k.a. the, dorval vanderbilt. the commodore was the founder of the vanderbilt family fortune. william henry was the son to whom he left a vast majority of his wealth. william henry in turn, more than double that moneyin a very short amount of time and george was william henry's youngest son. george need to work . and they, actually the other male, his olderbrothers went into the business, even some of his brothers in law went into the business which was shipping and railroads. george didn't have much of an interest in that. he was intelligent, well-educated, read in several languages, enjoy the arts, enjoyed philanthropy, enjoyed music, enjoy theater and enjoying travel . so the vanderbilts were a very large horse on the new york social scene at this point in time. so as i mentioned, george didn't need to work and george like traveling. he was very close with his mother and in 1888, he came down to ashevill

they started that stuff back in georgia during the russian /georgian war in 2008. -- expanddo you think your thoughts on the legislative effort. why do you think that protection is needed, and why should congress be the one to make that decision? caller: because congress is supposedly a neat will and separate branch of government. they have as much power as -- an equal and separate branch of government. they have as much power as the executive branch. int: let's go to john california, who opposes the effort. you are next up. caller: hi. i am watching you on the tv, first time on c-span. host: what are your thoughts on the effort? caller: i am opposed to the republicans that supports this bill. i consider them to be a little bit too progressive. host: why do you oppose it? expand on that. caller: they claim to be republicans, but they are too much progressive. host: what is progressive about this effort? caller: it is like the salem witch trials. tony, good morning, a supporter of this effort. man, i really love c-span. i wish i could get it on my hd. know, i am a republican. this is tot